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When Selecting A Domain Name, Think Big   by Brandon Drury

While, it can be important to fill a nitch with your domain name, it may be more important to choose a domain name that will allow you to expand in the future. I've created a number of websites where I was shortsighted at first and later regretted it.

You've had an idea for a website for a long time and you finally have the time to start building it. You are serious and you intend to build a website that will be filled with content for your visitors. You want this to be a website of real value. You actually want to people to get something out of your site and in exchange you would like to make a few bucks. This seams like a fair deal.

Niche vs Everything The beauty of the way a website / domain works is it's versatility. You could have a very broad domain name and still cover niche topics via the use of subdirectories. Let's say you want to create a mainstream music site. You could go with mainstreammusic.com or something similar, but would this be too limiting? If your music site takes off, you may find other things that your target demographic is into. For example, I'd guess that the mainstream music crowd is typically under 14-25 years old, give or take. What else to 14-25 year old people like to purchase besides music? You could be getting affiliate commissions off of blue jeans, perfume, McDonalds (I'm not sure about that one), etc. By limiting your site to just music, you are missing out on a large chunk of visitors.

Getting Started In the beginning, you must focus on your niche. In fact, it's critical. If you spread yourself too thin too fast, you'll be in trouble. So focus on whatever it is that you are doing, but keep the future in mind. Take "Baby Steps" from "What About Bob?". Start small. After you conquer your music subdirectory, you can then create your fashion subdirectory, but not until then. Launching a fashion portion of your large site will be much easier. You will already have traffic coming to your site. Members of the forum will automatically see it and visit it. You'll get a boost right off the bat. Then when you start your comedy subdirectory, just think how easy it will be to get that going. You already have two fully function websites (but under subdirectories) One mass email to your members and you'll get big time traffic the first day.

The Advantages of Big Websites Here's more food for thought. Would you rather have one hundred websites that all fulfill one niche or would you rather have one astronomical website that has one hundred niche subdirectories inside itz/ The laws of synergy kick in. Your site will be much more successful if you can house anything under one roof, or in this case one domain. Users only have to join one forum or one mailing list to use everything in your site. You can still cater to each niche specifically, but it sure would be nice to have a sitewide mailing list that mailed all of your members.

You also have to remember that people like to stay where they are comfortable. You know it's very annoying to start using a new graphics program, for example. It's sometimes hard to navigate through a site that you've never been to before. People enjoy familiarity. If you can give this to them, you will be more powerful and more successful.

When it comes to search engines, they like sites that have lots of content. So why would you build one hundred sites with 1,000 pages when you could build one site with 100,000 pages? You can quickly see the power in this setup. Why have one hundred PR 6 sites when you can have one PR 8 or PR 9.

Imagine how difficult it is to start up a new forum. Some experts say that developing a successful forum is one of the most difficult tasks for a webmaster. Why would you want to do that one hundred times? You would do it just once! Even if your music site doesn't explode your forum, chances are that a comedy site, a fashion site, and a music site will explode your forum....Synergy.

The next time you consider buying a domain name, think long ahead, and think big.

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Brandon Drury has a paid the bills using the internet for years. If you want more traffic for your website, check out theseoplace.com

Free Domain Search Engine   by Tonja Johnson

A Nationwide study shows that nearly half of U.S. adults are looking into owning their own businesses. While every business is not an "e-business' or "click and mortar" business, there are growing numbers of brick and mortar businesses that are advertising, and even selling their goods and services online. It's a well-known fact that any business needs an operating station, or in this case, a "domain name".

Have you ever tried to find a domain for your business, organization or just plain personal use? In most cases you would have to come up with an idea, check if it's available, and if its not, then you'd have to go through the entire process again. Because you would have to find a name not in a list of 40 million dotcoms, this becomes a tedious and timely process. There are now well over 56 million domains registered out of the global tlds (top level domains), which are .com, .net, .org, .info, and .biz. So how do you find a quality domain that somebody in the world hasn't already thought of? You don't. Anything worth using has probably already been registered at one time or another. However, there are some things that you can do. You can either find someone who is selling a domain that you like and try to buy it at their asking price (which is probably very expensive), or you can save your money and use a different method for finding a quality domain.

Everyday over 20,000 domains become available. How does a domain become "available"? When a user registers a domain name they are actually renting it in one-year increments, if a user does not renew their domain at the end of their period it goes through an expiration process and then becomes available to the public once more. However, even though 20,000 domains are re-entering the market each day, the domain industry is still growing and rapidly. As of April 22, 2005 the global tld registrations broke 50 million. Today, about 6 months later, there are over 56 million registered. This means that there are even more than 20,000 that are taken each day. In fact, most of the domains that come back on the market are immediately taken. So how does one know when and which domains come back on the market? The answer is a special type of search engine known as a deleted domain search engine. This domain search engine allows users to search through millions of domains that have recently come back on the market and are currently available.

There are many paid and free domain search engines out there. A good free one is pcNames.com. pcNames.com has created a domain name search engine that caters to anyone looking for the simplest domain name, to those that are in need of a more "complex" name. Over 20,000 domain names are added to this domain name search engine everyday. For those users that go into a domain name search with no idea what they may want, pcNames.com offers suggestions for each keyword that appears on the right while searching. Finding the domain to fit your needs is made easier with this search engine. Upon finding your "perfect" domain name, pcNames.com allows you to purchase the domain name quickly.

pcNames.com has many features that even most paid domain search engines lack. They have recently released a filter, which removes all domains from your results that are not 2-words. Meaning, when you type in the word car, every result that appears contains the word car and only one additional word or acronym. This removes all the misspellings and long awkward looking domains, leaving only quality domains for you to choose from.

This free deleted domain search engine can be found at http://www.pcNames.com. With over 4 million recently deleted domains currently in the database, there is sure to be a domain for everyone. Now you can easily find and purchase quality domains without the large price tags.

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